[PAA-Discuss] Opiods are killing us

[massoud1]

Jimmy,

 

You shouldn’t worry about “the opioid-related fatalities”. As you’ve mentioned previously, people “have large homes, modern cars, good schools, live in a democracy, lots of smart phones and big color TV's.” So according to you, even if they die by these “highly addictive drugs” at least they die in their “large homes” with “big color TV's” and “lots of smart phones”! Most of all they had a chance to “live in a democracy” which pharmaceutical companies have the FREEDOM to make any addictive drugs to kill the people’s pain and while making a “bigly” profit! A win win situation! Also your President will make a big beautiful WALL soon to stop the “Synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, ” which “are made mainly in China, shipped to Mexico, and trafficked here” as you have mentioned. So Jimmy it’s all GOOD my friend and I ask the same question that you have asked us: “What more do you want?” J

 

Massoud

 

 

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy Dunne via Discuss
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 9:28 AM
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Subject: [PAA-Discuss] Opiods are killing us

 

An estimated 2.5 million Americans abuse or are addicted to opioids — a class of highly addictive drugs that includes Percocet, Vicodin, OxyContin, and heroin. Most experts believe this is an undercount, and all agree that the casualty rate is unprecedented. At peak years in an earlier heroin epidemic, from 1973 to 1975, there were 1.5 fatalities per 100,000 Americans. In 2015, the rate was 10.4 per 100,000. In West Virginia, ground zero of the crisis, it was over 36 per 100,000. In raw numbers, more than 33,000 individuals died in 2015 — nearly equal to the number of deaths from car crashes and double the number of gun homicides. Meanwhile, the opioid-related fatalities continue to mount, having quadrupled since 1999.

The roots of the crisis can be traced to the early 1990s when physicians began to prescribe opioid painkillers more liberally. In parallel, overdose deaths from painkillers rose until about 2011. Since then, heroin and synthetic opioids have briskly driven opioid-overdose deaths; they now account for over two-thirds of victims. Synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, are made mainly in China, shipped to Mexico, and trafficked here. Their menace cannot be overstated.

Fentanyl is 50 times as potent as heroin and can kill instantly. People have been found dead with needles dangling from their arms, the syringe barrels still partly full of fentanyl-containing liquid. One fentanyl analog, carfentanil, is a big-game tranquilizer that's a staggering 5,000 times more powerful than heroin. This spring, "Gray Death," a combination of heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, and other synthetics, has pushed the bounds of lethal chemistry even further. The death rate from synthetics has increased by more than 72% over the space of a single year, from 2014 to 2015. They have transformed an already terrible problem into a true public-health emergency.

What do you think?

Jimmy

 

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